What is the didactical potential of teaching literature?
Learners get authentic input
Opportunities for communication
Increase reading motivation
Development of language system
Which topics are embedded through the inclusion of literature?
New criticism
Reader-Response
New Historicism
Cultural Studies
Inter- and transcultural competence
Define New Criticism
focus on text and author
Text analysis
Objective study of the text and formal characteristics
Define Reader-Response
shift to focus on text and reader, reader defends personal opinion with textual support
reader as active participants in the creation of meaning
literature analysed in context
Define New Historicism
acknowledgement of historical and cultural premises of literature
any piece of literature is part of a network of discourses
Define Cultural Studies in literature
post-colonial theory influenced in relation to power
literature is analysed in context
literature as one part of a cultural system
Define inter- and transcultural competence in context of literature
understanding a foreign culture through literary texts
aims at developing empathy, tolerance, change of perspective & culture specific knowledge
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